Evenin' (well, night...) I was going to say greetings from Portugal but have this annoying habit of not writing things while they are still relevant. So having completed fitting a shower door there we're back in Spain now. Weather dull and cold, drizzle tonight. The power cut on Monday was...

Been bldy cold here too, 4° at night, that's cold for here and not usual for late March.

I do like a nice fire. My incinerator is my favourite garden implement and when using it I always chuckle about how much my father in law would hate it. Probably need to heap a load of stuff up and have a big burn up before it gets too dry/hot to do that, it can take too much time in the...

Ours chases things but doesn't catch things much, likes the odd lizard (gecko). Often chases leaves, fluff, shoelaces, other cats etc. When clearing up the rat found a beheaded snake which also went on the shovel to be chucked, thought he'd eaten the head but by chance shovelled that up too so...

Bought some lead substitute additive for it. The lady in the petrol station was interested to hear what I was buying it for, I don't think they sell very much of it.

I must say I don't really know either, I'm just aware of it and I've seen that it gets eaten away after a while. I think you're right in that the anode will degrade in preference to the tank. Our water probably is a bit alkaline, in our case I think the anode is still called an anode though.

We don't really know the exact reason but there was some kind of issue which resulted in an 'infraction' early on which is the kiss of death. She's been fighting it in the courts for about 15 years. There's been two lorries up and down the track all day taking the rubble away and there's still...

Looks in very good nick, you could buy a full sized spare wheel for it. I hate those small spare wheels, especially on a big car.

Our cat earned his keep today, he caught a rat. I did take a picture of it but it's not a very nice thing to post... He's only 7 though, we thought he wasn't bothered about mice and rats because whining for more brekkies is easier, seeing as he's obsessed with them. I'm sure they put cocaine...

Interesting that your water is that soft. Ours is incredibly hard and we have to have sacrificial anodes as well and they do get eaten away - every couple of years I used to drain down our 150L heater tank and bucket out about 30kg of scale which had built up. Hopefully that will not be...

Yes, more angry I think. It is a long story, quite complicated I think but she's been through the courts, exhausted all avenues and ended up with a criminal conviction on top of it all. We're not sure of the full details but something went wrong early on, well before the statute of...

And then it was gone... a dark day.

Yes its ion exchange so the hardness ions are replaced by salt ions. I was quite disappointed when we first started using it, you should see the state of the kitchen sink (stainless steel). I should have realised that sparkling clean was unlikely. At least the pipes and appliances aren't...

When we got a water softener I thought great, we can wash the car at home now, previously banned as the scale left behind could only be removed using that scale cleaner that makes it fizz... The softener isn't great for that, although now not permanent hardness it still leaves a scaly residue...

Its AI created, see how the coiled receiver lead doesn't go anywhere...

I've had a look through all the settings and can't find anything at all for changing where contacts are saved to. I assumed it would be possible, maybe some phones give you a choice and some don't. Re. phones being unlocked, I think if you get a phone from an airtime provider on contract the...

It depends what you want/need to do, most fairly basic phones are fine for most things. I always choose Samsung simply because we've had them repeatedly for some time and have been happy with them. Also we always pick dual SIM phones because we have quite a few numbers and don't want to carry...

Usually when you save a new contact it should give you the choice of saving them on the phone or on the SIM. Maybe you have a default setting somewhere on the phone which will automatically save it to one or the other location, if so it should be possible to change it or set it to 'always ask'...

There's no good news coming from here at the moment, the demolition has commenced on our neighbour's house

Thanks, such is life, flat out for ever it seems. Had a huge amount of rain lately and now as a result of driving rain saturating a hillside we've had a fairly nasty landslip. Not very big but some of the rocks are going to take some moving. Luckily the burglar didn't take a lot, in and out...